It's a complicated. You have all these jigsaw pieces littering your floor and no picture to help you. Some pieces fit snugly together, create a sense of a bigger scene. It threads out and away into another room so it's impossible to get an overview. A few other pieces are shaped differently, more angular, cut from different board. You like them, but they might even be from another jigsaw.
In progress, my sketchy new novel. I was trying to do this year's Nanowrimo differently. Trying to avoid the chaos that has run through my other tries and attempting to learn new things about writing a large work as I go. However, it seems like the words are on the run and loving every minute. And I'm weary, sitting in the middle of the floor surrounded by all those jigsaw pieces, wondering how to ever make them all fit.
So it was interesting yesterday, when the tiredness got to me, that a new character breezed in like a red tab on empty pages and before I knew it, I had written another 4 pages of text. I promptly went for a walk by the sea and fell asleep in a rare glimpse of the sun.
36051 words so far.
Last line - Something church-like about the resonance, as if the walls are still humming every sound they ever heard.
5 comments:
Annie I LOVE that image and the word image you painted about the jigsaw pieces, so aptly capturing the struggle to make sense of what one is in the midst of creating...and I love that a new character arrived. Just like that.
Hi Fiona. Thanks. The long promenade here is like a temporary gallery of spray paint and signs. This one hasn't been spotted by the graffiti removal team. I walk past it most days and always take another look! Better to just keep going with the novel, I think. Sometimes, you can't see it when you're in the midst of it.
Sound as if you had a day like mine - 2500 blood-sweated words then two characters having 500 completely 'free' words of conversation. I too like your jigsaw analogy. Best of luck,
You have placed yourself on this amazing path. Your descriptions of puzzle pieces is quite wonderful as well as the exhaustion and sweet surprises. 36051 words...impressive!
Hi Sandra. Thanks so much. Great to hear you're doing Nano as well. Hope you have another good couple of weeks with it. I'm sure these new characters have come for good reasons. I just try and write/type it all doing anyway and keep out of it a bit!
Hi Mary Ann. Yes - I did!! Only myself to blame!! I'm learning so much, so that's reward in itself. The puzzle image really helps me see how things might slot together. Worked in a notebook while I was out yesterday, so that means I need to get typing.
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